Bjoern, not need to stress the inaccuracies of GPS - GPS traces is how this whole OpenStreetMap started, long before we even had aerial imagery. To this day some of the older hands in OSM consider using aerial imagery a not quite sportsmanlike way of adding data a.k.a. "cheating" ;)
On 06/29/16 14:04, Bjoern Hassler wrote: > (There are of course issues with GPS traces, so perhaps automated > capture of GPS traces is not that useful.) Automatically recorded tracks, even without any extra information, can be useful but of course it always requires someone with local knowledge to translate a raw GPS track into something that can be added into the database proper. Your user's contributions would be immensely more valuable if there was a way for them to at least record the information whether they're currently on a path or travelling cross-terrain. (Sometimes this can be guessed from the speed of movement but not always.) When mapping on my own with GPS I always used the waypoint marker button on the GPS to mark intersections; this makes it easier to work witht the data later. However this information will not find its way into the standard GPS trace background in editors; it is only available when you work with the track directly. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
